Hey guys/gals I have been after the giraffe calf, but anytime I fly over on a flight path I see them, but when flying back to their spot there is nothing to be found, so I was wondering if they are phased or what?

Jutath wrote:Hey guys/gals I have been after the giraffe calf, but anytime I fly over on a flight path I see them, but when flying back to their spot there is nothing to be found, so I was wondering if they are phased or what?

Sometimes on a flight path you go cross realm (crz). I've seen my game time change and then change back along a flight path, showing I must have changed servers. So it could be that, or it could be someone else got the pet. It's also possible stuff is phased depending on what quests you've done, I don't know.

I found four this morning at around 8:30 AM server time. Two seemed to be close to the area of an adult giraffe and were both in the pockets at the bottom of hills north of Ruins of Taurajo. Two were walking with adult giraffes in the area south of Desolation Hold to the west of Bael Modan.

I spent almost 24 hours straight trying to get a rare quality Giraffe Calf. What I observed was the calf never spawned with any static/stationary mobs. They only spawned with the roaming packs, sometimes it was roaming Dusthoof Giraffe, but most of the time it was a pack of Barrens Giraffe.

Evidently the packs share a spawn rate with the roaming packs of gazelle. Kill those packs and the giraffe packs will spawn more.

Edit: One more thing. A couple of times I did find a calf by itself, but this was only when near those annoying lions that kill anything that crosses their path, so I assume the pack it was roaming with was murdered! Bad lions!!

I got lucky on this one... kill all the critters that are not battle pets... seems to force the spawn. I got mine north of the ruined camp in those low hills... there was a group of animals I started to kill them all with aoe and saw a battle pet pop in the middle of it. I rushed over and captured 'Felix' right away.

Savo72 wrote:I've hit SB after two server restarts and was by no means fast getting back on. I found there are roughly 8-12 Giraffe Calf at that time. I've still not found a rare.

I was the same way, I'd been clearing the scourged whelps on another alt then did a giraffe check on a whim. I was curious if maybe they'd upped the numbers or something because it's the first time I'd seen THAT many up at once even with others looking.

Originally I'd thought that since these were coming up mostly poor that it was just a small sample size but as I've tried more and more (and so have others above) this pet still seems to have a strange bias towards lower quality.